I've always struggled a bit with the "intentionality" behind something. So, when people get shopped out of photos to make them an un-person the intentionality w

I've always struggled a bit with the "intentionality" behind something. So, when people get shopped out of photos to make them an un-person the intentionality was usually to cast them out. Bad, when it's stalin. Is this bad, when it's a domestic violence victim who has only one photo with their mom, and wants to remove the perpetrator from the image? I think this applies to deepfakes. Parody of news, can be fine. When the parody includes fake footage of real-world events, It can be "zelig" entertainment or it can become the protocols of the elders of zion. The intentionality is stripped from re-use. Textually speaking, I have fallen victim to copypasta. If it wasn't for what otherwise you could call vigilantes (intentionality again..) I wouldn't have known the "this happened to me" story was basically a respin of crap. You can make these things "illegal" but you can't actually stop them being made. So it becomes a hindsight/post-hoc event to deal with them in lawfare.